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Tag Archives: George Bernard Shaw
edwardian divide
Some disquieting similarities between the Edwardian Age, the flowering of capitalism in the era of Thorstein Veblen, running into the tide of modernism and consumer culture ; and today’s dawn of post modernism on the cusp of the service economy … Continue reading
Judgements of Joan
Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration, skpticism and awe… “You have heard the last of her,” says her Executioner to the Earl of Warwick in … Continue reading
water of life
…Setting aside all the trivia about whisky, one can easily summarize the characteristics of this undeniably important fluid… Definition: A spirit distilled from malted barley or other grain- Oxford dictionary. Note that it is not described as “good to drink” … Continue reading
prodigal radio: mercury in midtown
Orson Welles. The baggy trickster who scared the radio audience at 23, and in infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, with Citizen Kane. …In the mid 1930’s, America was still far down in the Depression; as a time for launching … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Archibald MacLeish, George Bernard Shaw, John Houseman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles The March of Time, Orson Welles The Shadow, thomas dekker, Thornton Wilder
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stand-off
It can be said that evolutionary theory is the centerpiece of modern Western thought, in fact of Western secular society, from economics, consumerism, the military, agriculture to parenting and politics. The appeal of linear progression, the basis for invidious comparison … Continue reading
valor and horrors
This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Brian and Terrence McKenna, Denman Ross, Fred Burton, fred burton chasing shadows, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, israel yom kippur war, jack levine art, Jackson Pollock, joe alon, John Updike, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Moshe Dayan Yom Kippur War, Seldon Rodman, The Fabian Society, The Valor and the Horror documentary
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distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading